similar to: Reference classes and ".requireCachedGenerics"

Dear John and others, I've been wondering about whether there's any way to indicate a "nil" reference class object, which will represent "no value", and be tested for, but not fail the internal type checking. NULL is the obvious choice (or seems so to me), but can only be used if an explicit class union is created: > Foo <- setRefClass("Foo") > Bar

Dear all, I see from some previous threads that support for 64-bit integers in R may be an aim for future versions, but in the meantime I'm wondering whether it is possible to read in integers of greater than 32 bits at all. Judging from ?readBin, it should be possible to read 8-byte integers to some degree, but it is clearly limited in practice by R's internally 32-bit integer type:

Dear all, First, many thanks to John Chambers, and anyone else who was involved, for the new support for "reference classes" in R 2.12.0. It's nice to see this kind of functionality appear in a relatively R-like form, and with the blessing of the core team. In some contexts it is undoubtedly appealing to associate a set of methods with a class directly, rather than defining a load

Dear all, Is there a way to force R CMD INSTALL to ignore ~/.Rprofile and similar? I presume it sources these startup files for a reason, but I've found that it can cause confusion or problems. In particular, my ~/.Rprofile loads a few packages which I very frequently use, but this stops me from installing new versions of their dependencies; viz. $ R CMD INSTALL tractor.base * installing to

Hello, I work for a company in which a number of employees use R. Many of them like to run executables via the system function in such a way that the output of that executable is displayed in a separate window. To give an example of the behavior they require, the following command can be run in R GUI: system("cmd",invisible=FALSE,show.output.on.console=FALSE) The result is that a

Dear all, The documentation for `all.equal.numeric` says Numerical comparisons for ?scale = NULL? (the default) are done by first computing the mean absolute difference of the two numerical vectors. If this is smaller than ?tolerance? or not finite, absolute differences are used, otherwise relative differences scaled by the mean absolute difference. But the actual behaviour

Dear all, I am trying to create an environment object with additional attributes, viz. Foo <- structure(new.env(), name="Foo") Doing this in a standard session works fine: I get the environment with attr(,"name") set as expected. But if the same code appears inside a package source file, I get just the plain environment with no attributes set. Using a non-environment

Hi, A piece of my code that uses readBin() to read a certain file type is behaving strangely with R 2.7.0. This seems to be because of a failure to match() strings after using rawToChar() when the original was terminated with a "\0" character. Direct equality testing with == still works as expected. I can reproduce this as follows: > x <- "foo" > y <-

Dear all, For an open-source project that I'm working on (1), which uses R for all its heavy lifting but includes a wrapper shell script, I was hoping to find a way to capture all warnings (and, in fact, errors too), and handle them in my own way. I realise I can do this for a single expression using something like: > f <- function(w) print(w$message) >

Dear all, The version of readBin() in R-devel includes a use of match(), through `%in%`, which can affect its performance significantly. By using primitives instead of the rather expensive call to match(), I reduce the time spent inside readBin() by more than 30% in some of my code (part of the tractor.base package). A simple patch that does this is given below. This passes "make

Dear Jon, thank you for raising the issue, >>>>> Jon Clayden <jon.clayden at gmail.com> >>>>> on Tue, 28 Jul 2015 12:14:48 +0100 writes: > Sorry; minor clarification. The actual test criterion in the example I > gave is of course abs((0.1-0.102)/0.1) < 0.01, not abs(0.1) < 0.01. In > any case, this does not match (my reading of) the docs,

Dear list, a while ago I posted this at r-devel but got no answers. Hope it?s okay to give it a shot again by cross-posting it here. TIA for any comments, Janko Von: Janko Thyson [mailto:janko.thyson.rstuff at googlemail.com] Gesendet: Montag, 21. Februar 2011 00:58 An: r-devel at r-project. org (r-devel at r-project.org) Betreff: Reference classes: error with missing arguments in method calls

Dear list, I'm having problems in understanding an error that pops up in the context of missing arguments with methods of reference class objects. Because of the following statement taken from '?referenceClass', my ref class methods call explicit S4 methods: "Reference methods should be kept simple; if they need to do some specialized R computation, that computation

The Lattice auto.key argument has a bug in R.12.2. R version 2.12.2 (2011-02-25) Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit) .... other attached packages: [1] lattice_0.19-17 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] grid_2.12.2 If I set up my plot parameters as require(lattice) superpose.line.settings <- trellis.par.get("superpose.line") str(superpose.line.settings)

Hello, I'm trying to build a simple cpp file using the R CMD SHLIB command and I always receive the same error message: cygwin warning: MS-DOS style path detected: C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-212~1.1/etc/i386/Makeconf Preferred POSIX equivalent is: /cygdrive/c/PROGRA~1/R/R-212~1.1/etc/i386/Makeconf CYGWIN environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this warning. Consult

Dear all, I have asked before, in R-help [1], about a way to create an interactive session in which commands are taken from a file or standard input - like R CMD BATCH but additionally allowing user input - but there was no response to that question, and the workarounds that I have found (using "expect", creating a temporary .Rprofile) are ugly and problematic. With the

Dear all, I've created a new mirror of the HTML versions of the main R manuals at <http://r-manuals.flakery.org>. This mirror does not modify the content of the manuals at all, but simply injects a new visual style with the aim of making the text easier to read and navigate. It will be updated after each release of R. The code used to generate these versions is freely available at

Dear all, In R-devel (2011-09-23 r57050), I'm running into a serious problem with seek()ing on connections opened with gzfile(). A warning is generated and the file position does not seek to the requested location. It doesn't seem to occur all the time - I tried to create a small example file to illustrate it, but the problem didn't occur. However, it can be seen with a file I use for

The link to http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/R-2.12.1.pkg on the CRAN page http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/ is broken. Also, the email address for the webmaster is null (which is why I'm emailing here). Thanks, Max

Dear all, I'm trying to write an efficient binary file reader for a file type that is made up of several fields of variable length, and so requires many small reads. Doing this on the file directly using a sequence of readBin() calls is a bit too slow for my needs, so I tried buffering the file into a raw vector and reading from that ("loc" is the equivalent of the file pointer):